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Prior to the economy tanking, the plan was to expand the number of medical students at UNC from 640 to 920 over a 4 year period.
All of the students would complete their first 2 years of med school at Chapel Hill. Then 50 would complete the last 2 years at CMC in Charlotte and 20 would complete the last 2 years at Mission Hospitals in Asheville. The rest would remain at UNC.
I would also like to see a UNC Charlotte (not UNC Chapel Hill) medical school.
However, I do not see this happening in the near future. The UNC system would have to fund it (ie: state tax dollars). The next few years are going to be the hardest for the state budget and the UNC system is expected to take a huge hit. Second, UNC Charlotte has received lots of funding for new buildings over the past few years. Most recently the uptown building and the new EPIC building which will go online next year. I believe the state has already told UNC Charlotte no more money for new buildings. And finally, UNC Chapel Hill and Carolinas Healthcare System (ie: CMC) already have some sort of deal in place. In fact, in one of the article's UNC Charlotte's chancellor made some comment to the effect of him not wanting to interfere with the UNC-CH/CHS deal.
That will happen with time. The colleges and universities here have to raise their standards and make the right choices. They will have to secure funding for research and projects that will increase the value of the schools.
An old thread, but it's usually the private, tier-one universities that lead the charge of being top flight.
Not only would they need a facility they'd also have to recruit the right caliber people to teach medicine. That in itself might be a difficult task depending on salaries etc.
How does med' ed' work here? In the UK almost everyone (if not everyone) who teaches the clinical side also has a contract with a hospital and practices clinically. We don't have university hospitals, so it's usually several hospitals in the area who provide clinical placements for the students, and this will be where the Prof's and Senior Lecturers have their clinical caseload.
I know that UNC Charlotte have had trouble recruiting people to teach on a new Acute care Nurse Practitioner program they're setting up.
We already do at CMC Main. UNC has about 40 students here and we rotate ~100 at CMC main from everywhere in the US and abroad ("away rotations"). We're specifically the clinical rotations (the last 2 years of medical school), but not the first two years (where you need a physical school with classrooms, microlab, cadaver lab etc).
Additionally we have ~150 residents in training as well as ~50 fellows, and lastly host faculty from other institutions to help them in specific areas where we excel (EM, Surgery, CT Surg, etc).
From CMC dept of Education: "During the 2011-12 academic year, 221 third and fourth year medical students completed 424 student-months at CHS".
Yes, we work clinically, teach, lecture, present at national/international conferences and have written many textbooks with lead editors. Most well know is the recently deceased Dr. Marx (Chair Dept of Emergency Medicine).
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